Shucking PNY ELITE X USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 4TB Portable SSD

AryaTheExplorer on 03/03/2025 - 15:33
Last edited 03/03/2025 - 15:36

Just a quick FYI since I couldn't find any info on this anywhere else. For anyone who picked up a PNY Elite X Gen 2 drive, my unit has the usual overheating issue when transferring large amounts of data.

I came across a video showing that PNY sells an NVMe SSD enclosure that’s the exact same size and shape, so I figured the Elite X Gen 2 might be shuckable, and it is. It’s a regular NVMe enclosure with a regular PNY CS2241.

To open it, just pry open the button end (the side opposite the USB-C port) with force using a flathead screwdriver or a razor blade.

I might put some thermal pads to connect the drive to the metal body to help with cooling or just pull the drive out and install it elsewhere.

Hope this helps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vOVflpwzX4&t=94s
https://ibb.co/ZRrz7yNJ
https://ibb.co/fYMJrr2p

Computing PNY Portable SSD

Comments

  • blitz on 03/03/2025 - 16:53

    Good to know, thanks!

  • Agret on 03/03/2025 - 18:27
    +1

    You could be bougie and get this

    https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006455458250.html

    • GordonD on 04/03/2025 - 08:42

      Well, that was a word I'd never heard before.

      bougie
      /ˈbuːʒi/
      noun Medicine
      a thin, flexible surgical instrument for exploring or dilating a passage of the body.

      It seems to be somehow relevant, but the sentence its in still doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

  • Clear on 03/03/2025 - 18:34

    Essentially they've taken an off the shelf adapter and engraved their logo. It's certainly cheaper than a custom enclosure and it allows you to reuse it with other SSDs. They were smart about it.

    How are the thermals now with the pads? In my experience the enclosures like these from JEYI are the best due to having a thick aluminum shell and thick thermal pads on both sides. Often I get even better temps than fan equivalents.

  • AryaTheExplorer on 04/03/2025 - 14:40

    I ended up putting the drive in my pc and leaving it there. It worked great connected to PCIE, cache limit seems higher and it was able to transfer stuff at top speed much more than being in the enclosure. I installed the ssd in a different enclosure with heatsink while monitoring temps, I could only managed 50-70GB in the enclosure vs 150GB in my pc (with the drive 25% filled). I think the drive wasn't overheating but just slc cache running out in the enclosure, probably firmware capping slc cache for being in the enclosure or for the sake or reliability cus its a low tier drive. cbf clearing out the drive to see if it could match the specs in the reviews
    https://pokde.net/review/pny-cs2241-ssd-review

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